RHEL6 Network Manager for Work/Home

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Aug 14 19:40:25 UTC 2012


Paul Whitney wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2012, at 03:12 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Harry Hoffman wrote (top posting while reading the request to not top
> post):
>> Then Network Manager can't (currently) handle it.
>>
>> On 08/14/2012 02:17 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> Martini, Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>> The laptop is setup with a static IP address at work which is
>>>> configured onto the laptop itself.
>>>
>>> Is it a 192.168 address at work? If not, you are going to have to tell
>>> it to use DHCP.
>>>
>>> And please don't top post.
>
> Then
> $ service NetworkManager stop
> $ vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
> # IPADDR=whatsit
> :wq
> $ service network restart
>  
> As root (#).  I only say this because your prompt looks like regular user
> ($).  Some companies that issue laptops typically do not give up the admin
> rights.  So he may be SOL unless he decides to reconfigure his router at
> home to dole out IP addresses similar to the one he has at work...

Dunno. My prompts, whether as myself, root, or sudo, all are
user at server:dir >

But someone who's got a Linux laptop, I'd expect to have some rights, at
least sudo. And he *ought* to have discussed this with his managers, who
you would think would be able to handle that issue.

      mark




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